Brazil’s booming cosmetic surgery business

Brazilian beauty

 Brazil is known for its Rio Carnival, beautiful tanned women and warm climate. However, Brazil also enjoys booming cosmetic surgery business for rich and poor alike.  In fact, barely clad, samba dancers in Rio Carnival are often a display of surgically enhanced breasts and buttons and such results are not by accident.

Brazils is considered a pioneer in plastic surgery and a destination of choice for cosmetic surgery tourism. In fact, Brazil performs over 11 million cosmetic surgery operations a year, second only to the Untied States.

Cultured meat - meat grown in laboratory test tubes

Test tube burger

At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver, it was announced that the scientists are working to produce meat in the laboratory to, potentially, replace conventional farm-animal meat production. The idea of “test tube” meat is to cope with the growing demand for meat but limited land resources.

Animal meat, as a source of protein or simply for taste, is an important part of diet for a large number of people. However, keeping the health issue aside, the cost of producing meat is significantly higher compared to
plain plant based food. It takes more than 2400 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of meat, while growing 1 pound of wheat only requires 25 gallons.

Healthy Vending Machines of Santa Monica

Healthy vending machines

Obesity is a problem in the U.S. and it can lead to several health problems such as diabetes. The problem is worldwide and even countries like Brazil and China have begun to experience the issue of obesity and its adverse consequences.

A Santa Monica company, H.U.M.A.N. Healthy Vending, is taking a healthy look at food vending machine business. H.U.M.A.N. in company name stands for helping unite man and nutrition (h.u.m.a.n.). The company states its mission is to eradicate childhood obesity through education and healthy eating and 10% of profits are donated to charities that fight obesity and malnutrition.

The company claims, traditional Vending machines in schools usually only sell foods high in sugar, fat, and sodium--which leads to worse-

Brazilian bikini business booms as women get fat

Brazilian bikinis

Brazil is known for its warm climate, carnival and beautiful, shapely, tan women in teeny bikinis. Supermodel Gisele Bundchen comes from Brazil. However, things seem to be changing for bigger in this sunny country as women are getting fat and larger bikinis are hard to find.

Brazil is a part of BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) group of nations